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THK LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. O., AUGUST 20, 1807 LATEST COTTON MILL NEWS. iTIiMS OF INTEREST TO TEX TILE WORKERS North and South Carolina Mills, Their Imfrovments and Their Ad vancements—Opera tive Personals. li. rn and Wt -t.'ni T* \ti!i' Hxcclsior. Stiim* I’ivdinont (S. cotton mill ui' ii arc planning an outing in the imuntnius. The Mountain Inland.JN. Cotton tiulis Imvc bcoti ordered to resume in full next Monday. J. 1>. Hacon, forintrly with the Can non Mfg. Co., Cone »rd, N. is now floss carder at the iVarl mills. .las. K. Cabuniss, late of (iastonia, 2s. is now running the card 10 mi at the IIockv 2dt. (X. C.) cotton mills. \V. II. Sharpe, formerly overseer of weaving at Saxupahaw, X. C., is now fixing looms at the Erwin eotton mills. The Elm Crove eotton mills, Lin- colnton, X. will ^tart tlitir d.TIK) ttpiudle yarn mill on double turn in September. S. K. Cicen, boss carder at the Pilot mills, bus resigned. He is sue- ceo led by Jno. \V. lien nett, of Xasli- ville, Tfiiri. Tiios. X’ance. who was card grinder :it th< (iastonia fX. C.) Mfg. Co., lias been |>romoted to be night overseer of earning. P. Shaw, who has been beaming at tiie Erwin cotton mills, IHirham. X. 0., is now in the grocery business at West Durham. Thirty-one shares of the Rocky Mount (X. C.) cotton mills were sold ••eoently in blocks of ten shares, at lObA, 1 Id j and 117]. The wife and two boys of Supt. Z. T. McKinney, Trion Factory, <ru., have returned home from a lengthy visit in South Carolina. R. A. Harding, overseer of carding, is visit ing his family in Alleghany, Pa. II. S. Smith, second, is running the room in his absence. L. Moore, overseer of spinning Concord, X. C., is wanting a section band, one who can manage help and understand changing frames. The heavy weight at the J’acolc-t {>. 0.) Colton Mills is Miss Ada Harvey, who tips the scab s at ;>imj lbs., and is only lb years old. W. F. Andrews has been succeeded •is bo>s weaver at Tucupau Cotton Mills. Well ford, S. 0., by E. .1. Wolfe, wlio formerly held the position. W. R. Smith, the boss dyer at the Oaraleigt mills, has been very sick with typhoid Aver, and he has gone to Laurence, Muss., to recuperate. <;. C. i mitt resigned the super- intendency of the Tucupau Cotton Mills, Wellford, S. C., on Aug. 17. iiis contract having expired on that date. W. !>. Clark, Secretary and Treas urer of the Manchester Mills Co., spent a few days this week in Troy, X'. ('.. with his family, v.lio are vis iting relatives there. The Cedar Falls (X. C.) Mfg. Co., 'are shut down to place a new McCor mick water wheel, which we are told is to he furnished by S. Morgan .Smith Co., York. i'a. Misses Mary Allen and Kale Rat ten. formerly of Rockingham. X. wlmr- limy were weavers at the Pee LV* mills, are now in the millinery business together at East Durham. The outcome of the Catawba. Spin ning mill suits at Chester. S. is t nat the factory will soon resume work under the management of H. C. .Stalin, a prominent business man of Ches ter. W. II. Knox, a popular and efli- cient barber of Xoov York, is now installed in “Tin* White Man’s” barber shop. Mr. Knox married Miss SalJu- Heard formerly of this cdty. The Su.vipshuw (X. C.; cotton mills, owned by White, Williamson Co., have been stopped two weeks i for repairs. They will start up their fi.pnO spindles and 1<*0 looms again I on Monday. Heo. Riddle, formerly loom fixer in the Aurora mi:ls, Rurlington, X. and recently lixer at the Hen derson X. C. cotton mills is now at the Pilot cotton mills with a simi lar position. Supt. .1. L. Hicks and W. E, Serin, Lo.iS weaver, of the I'nion (S. C.) Cotton Mills, went through Charlotte last Saturday en route for New Eng land, to spend their vacation of about ten days. The Abbeville (8. C.) Cotton M»lls are shipping cloth produced by their Xorthrop-Draper looms. On Aug. 7 they sent ten bales containing 17,- SU4 yards via the Heuboard Air Line to Kansas City. J. M. Arthur, formerly cloth room boss at the Cow pens (8. C.,) Cotton Mills, is now at Clifton. S. C., in the some department, where he acts as inspector of the cloth, and imposes the lines for defects. R. M. Lindsay, has been overseer of carding at Elm Drove Cotton Mills, Llncolnton, X. C., since last March, having gone there from Has- tonia, X. C., where he was card grind er at the Avon Mills. The Kidney cotton mills, Graham, X. C., which has been running on half time for several months started up again on full time on Aug. D>. weaving checks, plaids and stripes i with their 108 looms, The first annual stockholders’ meeting of the Enterprise cotton mill, l Orangeburg, 8. C., will be held on Kept. 11. having been called by Pre sident Samuel Dibble. This new fac tory will start up in the fall. The Oneida cotton mills. Graham, ! X. C.. will add 4,000 more spindles 1 and other necessary machinery right away. Many of their looms have been standing idle waiting f<>r warps ! because the carding and spinning could not keep up. The Riverside cotton mills. Dan ville, Yu., have, through Noble A. Hamilton, their New York selling agent, advanced all grades of their colored cottons je. their 11 brown sheetings }e, and uli widths of wide sheetings lc. per yard. W. R. Smith, president of the Clo ver, S. C. CottonMfg. Co * has install ed a 7)0 h. p. combined pump and in atcr in his ginnery. He bought it j from the Park Mfg. Co., of Charlotte. This is already reducing the con sumption of fuel at the plant. The Fayetteville X. <cotton mills are still running on half time. High priee of cotton and low price of yarns is the cause of it. If the new crop of cotton will cause the price of cotton and yarns to correspond the mill will start on full time in a short while. K. A. Crutchfield, formerly carder at McColl. 8. C., and who, up till a month ago, was assisting, at the Holt-Morgun mills, this place, to gi t the machinery ready for starting, succeeds A. Rriggs, resigned, as Sup erintendent of the Fayetteville cot ton mills. they have had from Mr. Rhodes for the different mills in which he is in terested. Repeat orders are great testimonials as to the value of a ma chine. Capt. Edmond Bacon, book-keeper thing looks revived accordingly, Neil Clark, the boss carder and spinner at the Manchester cotton mills, has removed to Greensboro, X. C., taking Ids family with him. They will he employed at the Prox imity mills; also Jno. Real, the boss dyer, and family, have gone to the same mills. Charles Jenkins, who recently had Ids arm so badly mangled in a re volving Hat card that amputation be low the elbow was necessary, is doing as well :.s can lie expected. II" bus worked for the MaginnisCotton Mills, Xew Orleans. La , for the past o years as card grinder. 1>. 'A*. Oats, Treasurer of the Char lotte X.C. cotton mills went to Xew York last Monday, on business for the mill, and will return early next week. Only about half their machin- | ery is now running, hut it will prob- 1 ably all he started up in full us the j new crop of cotton comes in. at the Lockhart, K. C.. cotton mills has had retribution for marrying so i many other couples by losing hi.- daughter in the same way. Khe was married on Arg. 17 to U rn. Living ston. the assistant book-keeper in the Lockhart mill, at the fatlnr’.s resi dence. The young couple are spend ing their honeymoon in Asheville, X. 0. The cotton mill at Hillsboro is running nicely, notwithstanding the fact that it has only been started a short while—about two months. The work reticcts credit on the over seer and superintendent. T. J. Mc- \eely, who was. atone time, super intendent of knitting mill at Kalis- bury, X. C., is boss carder and spin ner. Mr. McXeely has lately been working in the Lowell Macinne Shops, Lowell, Muss. Thos. II. Webb is superintendent. Miss Carrie, the daughter of N\ R. McCanless. president of the Kesler and the Vance, cotton mills, Kaiis- bnry, X. C., has on exhibition at a drug store there some objects that show her skill with the brush. There are half-length portraits done in oil, painted china, etc. Miss Mc- Canless was recently in Paris for twelve months, studying under mas ters of painting. The Salisbury World predicts that she promises to rank among the painters of the day. The Wayne cotton mills, Goldsbo ro. X. C., will start up between Kent. ! and G, in full—as soon as they can get new cotton. W. K. Parker, the general manager and agent, who is a stockholder and director, has mover! over from Fayetteville to assume con trol. He reports that they have se cured orders for some time ahead. The Wayne cotton mills will want a number of weavers on sheeting and drilling, all their machinery being the newest and best. Saturday, Aug. 11, was certainly a day of festivity at Haw River, X. The Sunday schools of the sevtra 1 de nominations united in one great effort it is now evident that crops are up to expectations us cotton Grover News. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Ghovku, August 24.—The drouth was again broken on Saturday by a i pretty good shower of rain and every* hut not has shed its fruit considerably and lias not cared as it has of yore ; hut, however, there will he enough made yet for home consumption and we can yet have hog and hominy at home and with one of the staple crops advancing in price, it is to be hoped that the Republican horn of plenty will yet contain something more substantial than lean negro office seekers a* pictured by the cur- toomist. Evervone should go to the election day and cast their ballots so it will he a lasting rebuke to the kind of campaign that lia> been go ing on in this state fortho last few weeks. It is high time for South Carolina to rid herself of any such politics. Everyone should study the campaign and see who i.-- responsible for the course in which it has been waged and cast their votes accord ingly and let each vote be a lusting rebuke to a*p* -nch poiit*i.n tuefe . Mrs. Lucy Love and family whose serious sickness has been previously reported. 1 am pleased to note, is now convalescing. The revival meeting closed at An tioch on last Sunday a week ago and as a result of the earnest labors (if Rev. A. A. Williamson and the pas tor. Mr. Bailey, t venty-seven were hurled with Christ in baptism. (>n ac count of the leaky condition of the baptistry they were baptised in the good old way of our fathers—out in a nearby branch. Although the church failed in their efforts to secure the services of Evangelist Klsom. us was 1 heir desire, by the very earnest and able ser mons of brother Williamson to both Chrietain and sinner great good has been accomplished, the church has been built up in the faith and sin ners have been brought to Christ, as is attested by the number of addi tions .to the church. Mr. William- som /ias indeured himself very close ly to all whom he has came in contact . with. He is now teaching a music to make the* day an enjoyable one for j c j. lds Antioch which is being very young by giving a picnic. | lur g ely attended. I i *-» old and young by giving a picrn The picnic was held at the mineral springs; an excellent place, near the village. About 1(X) people (this is a safe estimate) were present, the Granite and Thos. M. Holt mills hav ing stopped for the occasion. The A rion Cornet Bund, of 11 aw River, furnished the music. Textile Mfg. Co.. Rock- C., have their ten Gil- .1. E. Khaw has given up the over- seership of carding at the Midway mills. Rockingham. X*. (’., to become assitant overseer of curding at I'nion. S. C., cotton mill X’o. 2. There still remains.!. E. Khaw at Rockingham, who is a brother of the first named, and is overseer of weaving at Kteel s mill. , E. B. Hayden, who has been a! Prosperity, S. for some time, where he was helping to arrange for 1 the prospective Prosperity cotton ! mills, lias returned to his home at Plymouth. Mass. Mr. Hayden is the | father of Superintendent Ji. L. Hay den, of the Charleston S. (7., cotton ! mills. ' I). M. Shoaly has left Langley, K. C.. and is now in Augusta, Ga. | Chas. M. Burgess has changed from : Pacolet, S. C , to Xewry, S. C.: C/no . , L. Stolls from Atlanta. Ga., to Lock- Karr. S. C.; J. H. Wilson from La. Fayette. Ga., to Trion Factory. Ga.; to At- erosses •i i W. I. Alien from Toccoa, Ga lantu, Gu. President F. P. Tatum and Treas. T. B. Gibson of the McColl S. <;. (-ol- ton mills have organized, with others, the Bank of McColl, and they thi- week received their charter. The capitalization is 82r»,(K)0. other incorporators are A. son, P. Mangum, A. K. Odom, and J T. McJ .am in. The new Ingham, X bert backhand weaving machines h. steady operation. Two of these ma chines weave ten hands each, and eight machines weave eight hands each, a total of 84 hands being woven c .ntinuously. They have ordered two more hack-band looms from the Gilbert Loom Co.. Worcester. Mass. These are to weave six hands each of heavier quality. All of these Gilbert looms weave from a eop, instead of from spools, which is a great advan tage in operation, saves stoppages, and gives a far greater production. Leeds. 8. C.. is a station on the K. aboard Air Lino where it ih" Rroau River. L’p this lin» milt - is locatid the Lockhart cotton mills. Tills company is not satisfied with its present transportation facili ties—over had roads about lo miles to Jonesville or l nion, K. C. Presi dent John C. Carey ha.-, not abandon- | ed*his plan of water transportation, | and is experimenting in the direction I j of a boat line down the riur. He successfully made a trip from Lock- j hart to Leeds, Monday of last wee!:, in a boat about IN .Yrt long and tim e or four feet wide. '1 he trip of twen- j ! ty mile*; was m ido in tlir e hours. If I ho succeeds in r< ndering the river navigable as he thinks possible, it ! will he a big thing for Lockhart and i save many dollars in freight to the mill. The Seaboard will build a si/le- lYie four UI “l warehouse close to the W. Morri- wJiarf llt tll( ‘ river - On last Thursday the different | road overseers warned the hands i and cut out a new road from Buie j Humbright’s by way of Antioch to Grover which very much shortens ! he distance between the two places. ! command the public spirit of the citizens in obtaining shorter road facilities hut it seems to mo that we ; need better roads instead of more I roads us it would he better to go a little further over a good road than to go a little shorter distance over a worse road. I am glad to note that tiie sentiment in lavor of better roads seems to be growing now ai d l hope it will not he long ere our citizens will take hold of it in earn est. I would say to Janus that he did not lind all ofClicmkees bud roads on the west of the Broad. 1 venture to say that there are enough gulleys this side of the Broad to bury every i horse mule and vehicle in this i county, and i venture the further as- j sertioii that the extra wear and rear i of vehicles, wagons, horses etc., and the extra time and labor expended in transportation over the present roads, if we hud good roads, the dif ference in ten years would meeudatn- ize every road in the county. J. L. K. you are perfectly right in your deflmition in reference to the uuery on the theory and practice of teaching, hut 1 would add that no one should attempt to teach every thing embraced in that theory. Bi t ter make a specialty of some special line or branch and try to become perfect in that, us no one man can ever become perfect in all, and if he tries he will make a failure of all. a. n. Blacksburg Budget. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Blackswro, 8. C,. Aug. 2d—Capt. ' Win. Moore an ex-confederate soldier of Co. F. 17th 8. C. C. visited his old ; comrades in this section last week and attended the reunion at Blacks-! burg on last Sat urday. On last Thursday’evening at tin residence of Mr. T. D Moore. Miss Alice Duncan and Mr. Brown Cushion, of Blacksburg, were united in matri mony*. Bev.o. i*. Hamrick officiating. On Hie same evening at G o'clock, at the residence of th'* bride’s father, Mr. P. R. Byars, Miss Pussio Byars and Mr. Berry Martin were united in holy wedlock. On the third Sunday in July. Rev. (L P. Hamrick, pastor, announced polls on /that he would commence a series of meetings at Ml. Paron church, begin ning on Saturday before the third Sunday in August, and on that day j Rev. Gordon Wasbourne, a conse crated young man and a student of Wake Forest College, and Bro. W. ' M. Golh, of Double Springs, North | Carolina, were on hand. They held services each day till Tuesday when our pastor arrived from Double Springs where he had to close a very interesting meeting to come to us, when a most delightful revival commenced. The ministers and church prayed for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit whiefi was poured out in copious showers as was shown on Thursday when no Itss than 10 professed faith in Christ. Thu meet- ; ing was continued until today. (Monday;, when 21 converts were lei d iwn in the waters of Buffalo Creek, all at the same time, by our pastor, and buried with Christ in baptism, j Thus ended one of the best revivals ever helil in our church. Rev. A. A. Williamson preached for us Sunday morning and night. Crops, both corn and cotton, good in our section. We have been ulessed with good rains ail tlie year for which we are thankful. Mr. and Mrs. H. Martin visited the former’s brother, Perry Martin’s 1 family,near Xew Port, K. C.,two weeks since and report having a good time,us i’err.x is a jolly fellow. Superintendent McArthur visited our school at Holly Grove lust week, ! hear he was very well pleased. Sorry i did not get to greet ids genial face. i want to urge on every man Cherokee county the importance registering themselves. The hook will he opeti at our court house in Gaffney's on theG. 7 and 8lh of Kept. Please avail yourselves of the oppor tunity afforded vou. E. R. K. Cures Prove the merit of Uooil'n KarsapanlU—.jfwi- tive, |H-rf' <'t, ix riiianeut Cure*. Cures of icnrfula, in severe*! forms, like goitre, swelled ne' l.. running sor s, hi]i disease, vires (;i the e)es. hing Cures of Salt i:in i:]n, with Its intense i: and hurning. seald head, tetter, etc. Cu r es "t 1 toils. I'iai|>!es and all other eriije ttons iltie to impure Mood. Cures f >f Dyspepsia and zither trontdes where a good stonuieh tonie was needed. Cures "* lihenui itisni.where patients w» re un able to work or walk for weeks. Cures ■ <‘at:i: rh by expelling toe impurities w hich caii- • and sustain the disease. Cures of Nerv ui-ness hy properly tonn zaiul feeding the nerves i:]K»n pure bloob. Cures of That Tired I'e.ding tiy r-- ; u ing strength. Send for book of cures ry Hood s Sarsaparilla ToC. I. Hood & Co., Proprietors. Lowell, Mass. H(Kiel’s Pills I are tiie best after-dinner imi-*, itiu UiKOtiOll. idDH. Hov.e’l’s Perry Happenings. (Cori'f'^porKieno* of The L.eclger.) 'i ■La.st vis- Bul- I!DWici.i.’ji Ficitnv, Aug. 2< Saturday we were blessed with a refreshing shower which was very much needed. Mass s Alma and Strauss Walk r returned to Yorkville today sifter a few week s visiting among friends and relatives near Sunnyside. John H. Fowler and children vis ited Mrs. S. F. Estes last Wednes day. Sir. and Mrs. C. F. Inman ited friends and relatives lieu: are ' locks Creek last week. Fruit drying is the general occu pation of the women these sunshiny ! days. Miss Sudie Inman, of Etta Jane, ; is visitmgher grandparents. Mr. and i Mrs. A. F. Kendrick, of Gaffney. Jt was my privilege ns well as my duty to attend preaching «t Meso potamia yesterday and hear an ex cellent sermon preached by Rev. Mr. Isom. The house was filied to its utnio-t capacity. The text v as in j as follows: "The s uil that sinneth of j it s<lull die.” 'Ibis meeting will continue the most of this week. Sam no. The silent accomplish more Hie clamorous. than A learned writer asserts that en- er;y quite as often drives off disease a» it brings it on. The Christian should keep out of the path in which lie cannot find the footprints of his Lord. The man who sets himself up as the censor of his brethren had need have a .spotless character. ‘1 crave hut one minute.” said I the public speaker in a huskey voice; and then he took a dose of One Min ute Cough (Jure, and proceeded with his oratory. One Minute Cough Cure is unequalled for throat and lung trubles. Cherokee Drug Com pany. C A. 1 ’I'IVYIN, sno.ooo. 1 he p:i 1 Mn[ This bunk is now open for hunim-ss iind solicits niiii st.rfoiiiiiiiii^: country. It wH! c.Mciui to its customers sistent wit li safety. Money to loan on approved v rarity. every >i>!c <> nrrom.a.ods I" 1 WOSSs, CiiMliie-r. J. O. W AI * 1)1^ A W, l\ SiTACSV, V' ie e-1 "resiUt-n t. J *r* xL-ut. i>ii* tccrroiiH. President Cherokee I’a!Is .1 A. LAKKOU Mfg. Co. li . I). \\ II KAT. Treasurer <i : ifnev >1 fg. Co. K. M. WILKINS, Late of Wiikinsilies.. Mer chant c W. c. i AKPENTK!:. of Carroll & Carpenter, Merchants. .1. tl. WAKDLAW. See <>./ fi’ney. ry. (iatfiiey Mitnf. <to. .1. !. s.\ kjjnt’p. Mi reliant and Fa'aner. Hon. U.M. J KF'iiji'l LS. Farmer, lion •. S. ft. lion. C. W . VV It 1SN A NT. Mi reliant and Farm er. WilkitisviMc. S. c. HFNK) M. MeADKN. Cnpitaiist, M Adens- villr. N. C. <). K. U ILK INS. of U. L. Wilkins \ Lro.. tiuff ney. S. ('. F. G. STACY. Carroll A Slaey, Gall'ney, S. C Tiie Elird Mfg. Co., Albemarle, X. C. received notice from t he commis sion house in I’liilndelphia, Friday, of a sale of a very large quantity of their yarns at quite an advance in price. Fas!ern mills were offering the same Xo's. yarn at the same price, hut the Klird yarns were taken | in preference. A. C. Kutmncrvillo, of Charlotte, has put in ids new webbing factory a Motlatt combined feed water pump ; and heater of 8(1 h. p. manufactured | by the Park Mfg. Co., of Charlotte. I The latter company have also just 1 installed a similar machine in the . engine room of the Xima Mfg. Co.. I Mt. Holly, X. C. X. 8. West, overseer of the woav- ; ing in the Cannon mill No. 2, Con cord. X. C„ who has been for his va- 1 cation on a trip toKufaula, Ala., was i iii Charlotte Thursday on his way home. He was met here by his brother, P. L. West, overseer of spin ning at the Elm Grove cotton mills, Lincolnton, X. C. The Phu'iiix (co-operative) Cotton Mill Co., Fayetteville, X. 0., have completed the building, and will, sometime this fall, furnish it with machinery. The contract for the machinery, so it is said, will he given to a Massachusetts firm. Tiie offi cers of this mill are Chas. Haigh, presi dent; J. D. McNeill, Hoc. and Treas. Cowpens News. (Correspondence of The Ledyer.) Covvi’KNS, August 215.—We have had a nice lit tle season here. Corn is looking line. Jack Blanton’s cotton is opening. It will average twenty live hundred pounds to tIn* acre. i\. C. Thotnoson. of this place, is j ‘•They don’t make much fu*s about it.” We are speuKing of D« Witt’s Early Risers, the famous lit tle pills for constipation, bilousness, and ali .stomach and liver troubles. They never Company. jripe. Cherokee Drug Tlifi Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company, Offer for Sale Building Lots in this Flourishing Town, O .A. 3W 3V 1C Y C' I 'F Y. Also Farms near by and in reach of the schools of Limestone Springs and of this place in lots of from 30 to iOO acres on liberal time rates. Also Agricultural Lands to rent for farm purposes. For full particulars apply to MOSES WOOD, Agent. X. B.—All trespassing on lands of this Company cutting and removing timber, fishing or hunting are forbidden under nenaitv of law. II. is suneriii; wit h very sic; asthenia Rev. Mr. Rowan is carrying on a protracted meeting at Clifton So. 3. Your writer and family were down to hear him la^t week. lie looses no time in telling them the truth. Gil Fkti’hlt. The Park Mfg. Co., Charlotte, have shipped J. M. Rhodes, manager of theJCherryville, N. C. Mfg. Co., a Mof fat variable boiler feed pump of 230 as De Witt’s Little Early h. p. This is the third such order j Cherokee Drug Company John Griffin, of Zanesville, ()., says: ”1 never lived a day for thir ty years without suffering agony, until a box of De Witt’s Witch Ha zel Salve cured my piles.” For piles and rectal troubles, cuts, bruises, sprains, eczema and all skin troubles De Witt’s Witch Hazel Halve is une qualled. Cherokee Drug Company Before we can live right, we must first love right. Vim vigor and victory :-these are the characteristics of Do Witt’s Lit tle Early Risers the famous little pills for constipation, biliousness and all stomach and liver troubles. Cher okee Drug Company. The essence of selfishness consists in the determination to have your own way. Don’t nauseate your stomach with teas and bitter herbs, hut regulate your liver and sick headache hy us ing those famous little pills known Risers. Thoughts. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Tun KKTY, August 2(».—Fodder is beginning to call the farmers from the shade. Corn is good in some places this year, but in others it will hardly make the seed buck. Cotton is extra in spots. In other spots the bumble bees have about sucked it to death. Bud Wood and James Ross, two colored youths about fourteen years of ago engaged in a difficulty last Wednesday night. During the tnvlee James cut Bud across the hand with a knife. Tom Wilkins and Miss Alma Lip scomb were united in the bonds of matrimony last Saturday night, Rev. J. A. Baxter performing the cere mony. J. K. Black will shortly become a citizen of Gaffney. Will Rupp® lias as fine a tobacco crop as anybody in this section. It is reported that dogs in this sec tion are tearing down corn and eat ing it like hogs. Henry Lipscomb is visiting rela tives in this section this week. Ploigm Bov. • • • It heals everything except a broken heart, may be said of De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Piles and rec tal diseases, cuts, hums, bruises, tet ter eczema and all skin troubles may bo cured by it quickly and perman ently. Cherokee Drug Company. nr 11 ii FURNITURE are List running into Mahogany, Curly Birch and Bird’s Eyo maple. We are showing some rare Bargains. We sell Oak also. Can show you more styles at lower prices than you can lind elsewhere. Write for our Bargain Sheet of Fancy Kockers. PIANOS and ORGANS. The very best make*. We guarantee the very lowest prices. Easy terms. We guarantee absolute Satisfaction. Write mo if interested. -V* m. Y :vi>i*Mrvv{3, C?ori>etH. IManoei aiml Organa, OHiVKLrO'jr.TE, TV. c:. ♦ {